Recent statements by leaders in the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust division have signaled a possible shift in policy in favor of patent holders when it comes to standard-setting organizations and their potential for anti-competitive conduct. While experts told Law360 that it’s not clear what the remarks will mean for SSOs when it comes to enforcement, they’re watching to find out.

Marking a win for Google, a federal judge has thrown out the antitrust suit against the popular search engine brought by former New York attorney general candidate Carl E. Person, finding that he struggled to claim injuries he sustained personally from Google’s alleged monopolization of the search advertising market.

Although French President Nicolas Sarkozy succeeded in having a reference to free competition deleted from a new European Union treaty, the EU's competition policy and enforcement will remain the same, European Commission Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said Saturday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has halted a Burger King franchise's quest to hold McDonald's Corp. accountable for the alleged competitive injury that resulted from the burger rival's purported false advertising of various promotional games.

Asserting that it had satisfactorily cooperated with the plaintiffs in an ongoing antitrust case over urethane, Chemtura Corp. on Friday asked the court to limit damages it would have to pay in the litigation.

Rounding out a victorious week for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and for energy competition, an appeals court Friday upheld the Commission's authority to regulate against wholesale power market manipulation.

Sparking controversy among the members of the European Union, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has persuaded the European Commission to drop a reference to “free and undistorted competition” from the draft of a new treaty to replace the failed EU constitution.

The plaintiffs in an ongoing class action over alleged price-fixing by graphics chip makers said Thursday that the Supreme Court's recent “Twombly” decision should not lead to a stay of discovery in their case.

Some of the country's largest insurance companies became the latest high-profile defendants to cite the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Twombly ruling on Thursday when they argued a court should dismiss a class action against them.

A magistrate judge's order preventing Medco Health Solutions Inc., Caremark Rx Inc. and Express Scripts Inc. from subpoenaing the other side's witnesses was too hard a pill to swallow for the pharmacy benefit managers, which argued on Thursday that they had the right to cross-examine experts accusing them of restricting competition in the drug market.

Plaintiffs in two non-class action suits involved in the long-standing multidistrict antitrust litigation alleging a conspiracy to fix the price of polyester staple fiber have asked the court to provide access to documents that may impeach the defendant’s witnesses.

Saying it could chill cooperation with future investigations, the Federal Trade Commission is trying to block an attempt by Whole Foods Market Inc. to win access to information the regulator gleaned from other grocery stores while investigating the store's acquisition of rival Wild Oats Markets Inc.

In a show of force against soaring oil prices, Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing the controversial NOPEC bill, aimed at dismantling foreign oil cartels. But the effects of such dramatic provisions, many suspect, would barely dent the bill's chief target, OPEC.

Comdata Network Inc. is engaging in anti-competitive behavior in order to secure a monopoly in the U.S. market for trucker fleet cards, according to a putative class action brought by a small gas station chain.

A federal judge has issued a stinging rebuke to three pharmaceutical companies in a massive antitrust class action, finding that they acted unfairly and deceptively by causing the publication of artificially inflated average wholesale prices for various prescription drugs.

Italian banks have paid back the money they saved from tax breaks they were granted in the late 1990s, after the European Commission rebuked Italy's government for passing a law that violated the EC's state aid rules.

Plaintiffs have promised to take their antitrust class action against General Motors Corp., DaimlerChrysler Corp. and other companies to an appeals court, after a district court judge dismissed their claims that the auto makers conspired to block cheaper Canadian cars from reaching the American market.